I’m going to take a minute to address my views on a certain situation that is making waves in the sport of open water swimming. Meet Penny Palfrey. Penny is one of the most decorated marathon swimmers of all time. Last week Penny completed a 68-mile swim bridging the Cayman Islands which took her 41 [...]
Ahhhhhhhh………Indiana. How I miss you. No matter how tan and fit I get, no matter how good the SoCal weather really is, and no matter how many times I swim in the ocean, I miss my home state. So it was my pleasure to skip over to LAX and hop aboard a plane headed to [...]
Last weekend I had the pleasure of catching a roadtrip headed north to San Francisco via Highway 1. I took it as another chance to cross another watering hole off of my “must swim” list. I had little time to plan: a quick text message to Will Simmons (Catalina Kayaker) put me in touch with [...]
This past week I had a pretty scary thing happen. It was bound to happen, at some point, (as these things do) but it still didn’t mean that I was prepared for it. I got injured. While at work at the Lobby Lounge of the Culver Hotel, I threw out my back picking up a [...]
Recently I was flipping through my roommates coffee table book entitled Hot Shots: Tips and Tricks for Taking Better Pictures by Kevin Meredith, and I noticed something…….there were quite a few pictures that featured open water swimming as its subject matter! I figured I had to have an enthusiast on my hand, so I looked [...]
I justt wanted to take a moment to recognize that my beloved Coach Powell turned 74 today and celebrated by swimming his age in laps. 74 laps=1,850 yards which is over a mile! So I’m sure you are saying “oh wow, he can swim over a mile, thats amazing!” However……….. I talked to the big [...]
Wow, its already been almost a month since Alcyone’s maiden voyage and I’m just now blogging about it! My life has been a hectic mess between training, coaching, leading clinics, and working (yeah I’ve got to pay bills too!), and unfortunately maintenance of the Mallory Mead website have fallen to the wayside. Enough of the [...]
Mallory recently accepted a coaching position with Southern California Aquatics (SCAQ) in Los Angeles, the largest Master’s Swim Club in the country. In addition to leading pool sessions designed for pool, fitness, and open water swimmers, Mallory will lead ocean clinics and workouts for beginners and experienced open water swimmers. To learn more about SCAQ, [...]
Yesterday I took an absolutely magical trip to La Jolla Cove. I nearly tear up just thinking about it. A few weeks ago Anne Cleveland and Jen Shumacher and I facebooked each other and made plans to meet up. Along the way we picked up Gracie Van der Byl and I recruited my husband Morgan to [...]
I will admit that the only time I get around to reading a book is when I have a long flight ahead of me. Luckily for me (and for you) I flew between Los Angeles and Indianapolis three separate times last month, so I got a chance to revisit an open water swimming classic, Lynn [...]
